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South Coast SKAT (Support Koalas Actively Today)
The South Coast SKAT network was formed after an open forum was convened by local residents to discuss the results of recent koala surveys that were organised by the Department of Environment and Climate Change and Forests NSW with extensive community support.
The venue was generously provided and catered for by the small community at Tanja. Representing a diverse range of opinions, those in attendance were united in the belief that the environmental problems we all see around us every day could be greatly improved by the enthusiasm and efforts of ordinary people working together in their own backyard rather than sitting back and waiting for intervention by outsiders. The South Coast SKAT organization was inaugurated that night as a natural outcome of those principles of community co-operation and personal commitment.
We are focusing our efforts at present on the plight of the locally threatened koala population in the forests between Bermagui and Bega. Koala numbers have drastically declined in our forests in recent years until there are probably fewer than fifty alive in the forests between Bermagui and Bega.